خسنگ
Brahui
editEtymology
editUnknown. Bray suggests a connection to Gondi [script needed] (kossānā, “to sift with sideways motion”).
McAlpin relates it to Achaemenid Elamite [script needed] (ha-su-ip /hasup/, “anointers”).[1][2]
Verb
editخَسِّنْگ (xassiṅg)
References
edit- ^ McAlpin, David (2022) “*xas”, in “Modern colloquial eastern Elamite”, in Al-Burz, volume 14, number 1, page 76 of 64–123
- ^ McAlpin, David (2015) “Brahui and the Zagrosian Hypothesis”, in Journal of the American Oriental Society,[1], volume 135, number 3, page 561 of 551–586
Further reading
edit- Bray, Denys (1934) “khassing”, in The Brahui Language[2], Calcutta, India: Superintendent Government Printing, Part II: The Brāhūī Problem; Part III: Etymological Vocabulary, page 182
- Ali, Liaquat, Kobayashi, Masato (2024) “xass-ing”, in Brahui Texts: Glossed and Translated Short Stories and Folktales[3], Tokyo: Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, page 732